Infinities

Data Desk interprets the character ∞ as infinity (and -∞ as negative infinity). Where it makes sense, the value is treated correctly. Thus, for example, 1/∞ = 0. Also, 1/0 will yield ∞.

Most operations in Data Desk will treat ∞ as a missing value, but nonparametric statistics will usually count it as a very large value.